Saint Augustine Quotes, Kings Quotes, Sea Quotes

When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

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The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

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We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

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One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

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Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

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